• Feeding the Nation ~ A Celebration of the Women's Land Army

    An exhibition honouring the work of the members of the Women's Land Army (WLA) has recently opened at the Yorkshire Museum of Farming, Murton, near York. YFA are pleased to present a film to accompany the exhibition, featuring archive footage taken from our collections, together with a selection of oral histories gathered from former Land Girls. 

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  • Spring is in the air

    After a particularly cold and wet winter, spring has finally arrived (just!).  Harrogate Flower Show has recently finished, with Chelsea to follow later this month.  To celebrate the coming of new buds and blossoming flowers, we are presenting four new films all capturing the natural abundance of the season.

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  • Enterprising Job Opportunity at YFA!

    YFA are pleased to announce the launch of a new social enterprise  – YFA Enterprises Ltd (YFAe), which has been set up to develop a whole range of innovative products using archive content specifically re-packaged and re-purposed to appeal to specific markets.  The first of these products is Memory Bank – a new resource developed in conjunction with healthcare professionals for work in reminiscence and life story work.  YFAe is now looking to appoint a commercial manager to work with YFAe Directors to take these products to market.

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  • The C. H. Wood Collection

    To tie in with YFA's screenings at the 19th Bradford International Film Festival, April 2013's Curated Collection features films from the Bradford-based film production company of C. H. Wood.

    The C. H. Wood Collection is extremely significant to the Yorkshire region.  Two generations of the Wood family contributed to the productions, capturing on film over 90 years of regional history.  

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YFA Selects

HRH DUKE OF YORK VISITS ROWNTREES COCOA WORKS
1920
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On November 9th, 1920, HRH the Duke of York paid a visit to Rowntree’s Cocoa Works.  This film documents his visit to...
SHEFFIELD PEACE MARCH
1936
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Made for the Sheffield and District Workers Film Society by Brian Pickersgill, this film documents anti-war protest marches...
THE FALL AND RISE OF THE BARWICK MAYPOLE 1978
1978
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This is a documentary film showing the traditional taking down, re-painting and putting back up, of the maypole in the centre of...

YFA Innovations

  • Memory Bank

    Memory Bank is a new series of themed DVDs and online films designed by YFA in conjunction with health care professionals to bring past events and experiences back to life using specially selected archive footage. 

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  • Yorkshire Calendar

    Every week, Yorkshire's film heritage is brought to life thanks to our exciting new web application, featuring footage from major events and magic moments in days gone by. The Yorkshire Calendar already features on a number of Yorkshire websites, and could appear on yours...

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  • Video Postcards

    People love sending postcards, so YFA are using new technologies to take this a step further! Why not send a video postcard - by email or smartphone - featuring byte sized clips of archive footage of destinations around Yorkshire?

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  • Family Film Tree

    Family Film Tree is an interactive genealogy website under development by YFA.  Search hundreds of archive film clips to illustrate how generations of your family lived, worked, and played throughout the 20th Century.

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